Discovered respectively about 30 and 40 years ago, Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are becoming the most well-studied model marine microbes. What began as mere observations of small novel marine cyanobacteria now emerges as one the major advances of the last century in biological oceanography: these closely related microorganisms constitute a key genetically and physiologically diverse group of phytoplankton that represents a core engine of marine microbial communities and global biogeochemical cycles.
Building on the success of the first ProchlorococcusFest (2008) that celebrated the 20th anniversary of the discovery of Prochlorococcus, this meeting will bring together both veterans and newbies alike to highlight past achievements, current research and future directions in the study of these important organisms. All areas and modes of inquiry are welcome. Participants working in diverse areas are welcome, such as people studying predators, biogeochemical influences, and other microbes that exchange metabolites with these significant primary producers.
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Lecciones
SIMONS CMAP: AN INTERCONNECTED OCEANIC DATA PORTAL
S1-INVITED TALK 1: A SHORT STORY OF THE DIVERSITY AND ACTIVITY OF CYANOBACTERIA IN THE GLOBAL OCEAN
Zackary Johnson
S1-INVITED TALK 2 (ON-LINE): DIVERSITY AND ADAPTATION OF SYNECHOCOCCUS IN ESTUARINE WATERS
Liu Hongbin
S1-INVITED TALK 3 (ON-LINE): COMPARATIVE AND ECOLOGICAL GENOMICS OF MARINE PICOCYANOBACTERIAL
Laurence Garczarek
S1-INVITED TALK 4 (ON-LINE): FASTER GROWTH OF THE MAJOR PROKARYOTIC VERSUS EUKARYOTIC CO2 FIXERS IN THE OLIGOTROPHIC OCEAN
Mikhail Zubkov
S1-SHORT TALK 1: NOVEL CONSTRAINTS IMPROVE DIVERGENCE TIME ESTIMATES FOR PICOCYANOBACTERIA, SUGGESTING A HISTORY MARKED BY MASS EXTINCTIONS AND RECOVERIES
Gregory Fournier
S1-INVITED TALK 5: ECOLOGICAL CONTROLS OF PROCHLOROCOCCUS AND SYNECHOCOCCUS GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION NOW AND IN THE FUTURE
Stephanie Dutkiewicz
S1-SHORT TALK 2 (ON-LINE): SYNECHOCOCCUS SPP. LIVING IN THE MESOPELAGIC ANOXIC REALM OF THE BLACK SEA
Cristiana Callieri
S1-SHORT TALK 5: PROTEOME MAPPING OF A CYANOBACTERIUM REVEALS DISTINCT COMPARTMENT ORGANISATION AND CELL DISPERSED METABOLISM
David Lea-Smith
S1-SHORT TALK 6 (ON-LINE): PICOCYANOBACTERIA IN INLAND SEAS
Maureen Coleman
S1-INVITED TALK 6 (ON-LINE): SEASONS OF SYN: INSIGHTS INTO THE ANNUAL PATTERNS OF A COASTAL SYNECHOCOCCUS POPULATION FROM IN-SITU FLOW CYTOMETRY
Kristen Hunter-Cevera
S1-INVITED TALK 7: UNDERSTANDING OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES THROUGH THE LENS OF PROCHLOROCOCCUS AND SYNECHOCOCCUS
Adam C. Martiny
S1-INVITED TALK 8: EXPLORING THE DIVERSE FUNCTIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF MARINE CYANOBACTERIA IN NATURAL POPULATIONS
Mak Saito
S1-INVITED TALK 9 (ON-LINE): DATA DRIVEN MODELS OF PROCHLOROCOCCUS AND SYNECHOCOCCUS ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS
Ginger Armbrust
S1-SHORT TALK 7 (ON-LINE): GENOMIC MOSAICISM UNDERLIES THE ADAPTATION OF MARINE SYNECHOCOCCUS ECOTYPES TO SEVERAL, DISTINCT OCEANIC IRON NICHES
Nathan Ahlgren
S1-SHORT TALK 8: THERMAL ACCLIMATION AND NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY CONTROL PROCHLOROCOCCUS CELL DIVISION IN SURFACE WATERS
François Ribalet
S2-SHORT TALK 9: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF THERMAL ACCLIMATION IN PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS MIT9301
Laura Alonso Saez
S2-SHORT TALK 10 (ON-LINE): PROCHLOROCOCCUS STRAINS EMPLOY DIFFERENT PHOTOSYNTHETIC STRATEGIES UNDER DISTINCT CONDITIONS OF OXYGEN CONCENTRATION AND LIGHT AVAILABILITY: MINING THE OCEAN PROTEIN PORTAL
Amanda Cockshutt
KEYNOTE SPEECH 2 (ON-LINE): FOUR DECADES OF RESEARCH ON MARINE SYNECHOCOCCUS: A GLOBALLY IMPORTANT PHOTOTROPH
David J. Scanlan
S2-INVITED TALK 10: FROM GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE TO GLUCOSE UPTAKE: 25 YEARS WORKING ON N AND C METABOLISM IN MARINE PICOCYANOBACTERIA
José M. García-Fernández
S2-INVITED TALK 11: EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF SYNECHOCOCCUS PHYCOBILISOMES
Frédéric Partensky
S2-INVITED TALK 12: CHROMATIC ACCLIMATION IN SYNECHOCOCCUS: MECHANISMS AND REGULATION
David M. Kehoe
S2-SHORT TALK 11: SMALL THINGS RECONSIDERED: THE DARK MATTER OF GENETICS IN CYANOBACTERIA
Wolfgang Hess
S2-SHORT TALK 12: REDEFINING THE PARADIGM: ARE SUBSTRATE BINDING PROTEINS IN CYANOBACTERIA SCAVENGING DIVERSE NUTRIENTS?
Bhumika Shah
S2-INVITED TALK 13: GENE REGULATION WITH NON-CODING RNAS IN PROCHLOROCOCCUS
Claudia Steglich
S2-INVITED TALK 14 (ON-LINE): FEELING BLUE? FEELING LOW? PROCHLOROCOCCUS, LIGHT & OXYGEN
Douglas Campbell
S2-SHORT TALK 13 (ON-LINE): THE EVOLUTION OF SIDEROPHORE USE IN PROCHLOROCOCCUS
Shane Hogle
S2-INVITED TALK 15: HOW DOES LEACHATE FROM PLASTIC POLLUTION AFFECT MARINE PRIMARY PRODUCERS?
Lisa R. Moore
S2-INVITED TALK 16 (ON-LINE): ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF MARINE PICOCYANOBACTERIA, ONE CELL AT A TIME
Solange Duhamel
S2- INVITED TALK 17: INDIGENOUS PROCHLOROCOCCUS FROM OXYGEN-DEPLETED OCEANIC WATERS
Osvaldo Ulloa
S2-INVITED TALK 18: EMERGING COMPLEXITY OF N CYCLING IN PROCHLOROCOCCUS POPULATIONS
Paul M. Berube
S2-INVITED TALK 19: IDENTIFYING THE ROLE OF TRANSPORT IN OPEN OCEAN CYANOBACTERIAL SYMBIONTS BY EXPRESSION IN MODEL HETEROLOGOUS SYSTEMS
Rachel Foster
S2-SHORT TALK 15: STABILIZATION OF EXTENSIVE FINE-SCALE DIVERSITY BY DISPERSAL AND ECOLOGICALLY DRIVEN SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHAOS
Daniel Fisher
S2-SHORT TALK 14: ELECTRON TRANSPORT AND CARBON METABOLISM IN LOW-LIGHT AND HIGH-LIGHT ECOTYPES OF PROCHLOROCOCCUS MARINUS
Ondrej Prasil
S3-INVITED TALK 20: COEXISTENCE AND RESISTANCE AMONG CYANOBACTERIA AND THEIR PHAGES IN THE OCEANS
Debbie Lindell
S3-SHORT TALK 16 (ON-LINE): TEMPORAL TRANSCRIPTIONAL PATTERNS OF CYANOPHAGE GENES SUGGEST SYNCHRONIZED INFECTION OF CYANOBACTERIA IN THE OCEANS
Qinglu Zeng
S3-SHORT TALK 17: EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES SECRETED BY SYNECHOCOCCUS: EFFECT OF STRESS IN THEIR PRODUCTION AND CONTENT
María del Carmen Muñoz-Marín
S3-SHORT TALK 18 (ON-LINE): INTEGRATIVE ELEMENTS ABUNDANT IN MARINE VESICLES SHAPE PROCHLOROCOCCUS GENOMIC PLASTICITY
Thomas Hackl
S3-SHORT TALK 19: BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CYANOPHAGE ENCODED AUXILIARY METABOLIC PROTEINS GIVE INSIGHTS INTO THEIR ROLE DURING INFECTION
Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel
S3-SHORT TALK 20: PICO-PARACHUTES: MARINE PICOCYANOBACTERIA USE PILI AS A STRATEGY TO RETAIN OPTIMAL POSITIONS IN THE WATER COLUMN AND EVADE PREDATION
Joseph Christie-Oleza
S3-SHORT TALK 21: MACROPLANKTONIC PELAGIC TUNICATES PREY ON PICOCYANOBACTERIA
Anne Thompson
S3-INVITED TALK 21: PROCHLOROCOCCUS AND SYNECHOCOCCUS: FRIENDS, ENEMIES, FRENEMIES?
Erik Zinser
S3-INVITED TALK 22 (ON-LINE): CYANOBACTERIAL EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES: ORIGINS, CONTENTS, AND COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
Steven J. Biller
S3-SHORT TALK 22: WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS: PROCHLOROCOCCUS SURVIVAL AND GROWTH UNDER LOW NUTRIENT AND ENERGY CONDITIONS THROUGH METABOLIC INTERACTIONS WITH HETEROTROPHS.
Daniel Sher
S3-SHORT TALK 23 (ON-LINE): PROTEOMICS OF NITROGEN INCORPORATION IN SYNECHOCOCCUS, PROCHLOROCOCCUS AND THEIR PHAGE
Jacob Waldbauer
S3-INVITED TALK 23 (ON-LINE): EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF A SIMPLE PROCHLOROCOCCUS COMMUNITY
Jeffrey Morris
3RD POSTER SESSION ROOM 1 (PLENARY ROOM)
3RD POSTER SESSION ROOM 2 (PABLO DE CÉSPEDES ROOM)
R2: NEW FLOW TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANALYZING PICOCYANOS
F. Ribalet, A. Thompson & K. Hunter-Cevera
R3: EXPLOITING THE WEALTH OF METAGENOMICS DATA
L. Garczarek, A. Martiny D. Scanlan & P. Berube
KEYNOTE SPEECH 3: CYANOBACTERIA IN SYMBIOSIS: LEARNING FROM NEW MODELS
Jonathan P. (Jon) Zehr
WRAP UP, GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS
1ST POSTER SESSION ROOM 1 (PLENARY ROOM)
1ST POSTER SESSION ROOM 2 (PABLO DE CÉSPEDES ROOM)
CULTURING PICOCYANOBACTERIA
Allison Coe (on-line) & Lisa Moore
MARINE CYANOPHAGES
Debbie Lindell and Ran Tahan
COMPARATIVE GENOMICS FOR GENE DISCOVERY USING INTEGRATED MICROBIAL GENOMES (IMG)
Rekha Seshadri
VESICLES AND LIPIDS
Steven Biller (on-line) & María del Carmen Muñoz-Marín
PLANET MICROBE: A CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR INTEGRATING OCEANOGRAPHIC OMICS, ENVIRONMENTAL AND PHYSIOCHEMICAL DATA LAYERS
Bonnie Hurwitz
GENETICS IN CYANOBACTERIA
David Kehoe, David Lea-Smith, Nikolai Radzinski, Joseph Christie-Oleza & Giovanna Capovilla (on-line)
CYANORAK V2.1: A SCALABLE INFORMATION SYSTEM DEDICATED TO THE VISUALIZATION AND EXPERT CURATION OF GENOMES FROM THE CYANOBACTERIA CLUSTER 5 RADIATION
Frédéric Partensky & Gregory K. Farrant
CURATED CYANOBACTERIAL DATABASES AT THE BIOCYC.ORG MICROBIAL GENOME WEB PORTAL
Peter Karp (on-line) & Lisa Moore
KEYNOTE SPEECH: PROCHLOROCOCCUS: THEN AND NOW
Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm